Number 4

In MultiMatch under the 6/43 · since Sep 2025 rules — 109 draws, 6 from 1–43.

15times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.06σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 64% for any number

7.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

19longest completed wait · 62% chance of one at least that long

4 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 109 draws against 15.2 expected, −0.06σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 4, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 109 draws · average wait 7.3 draws · longest completed wait 19 · waiting 4 draws now

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 4 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest8 · chance 10.2
2nd smallest5 · chance 4.4
3rd smallest2 · chance 0.5
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

18 1 6 10 16 42

Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 4 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 43. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 4 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-28	8	3rd	1 2 4 24 27 29
2026-08-31	5	2nd	1 4 18 35 41 42
2026-08-13	8	2nd	1 4 10 18 28 43
2026-07-16	10	1st

What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. A number’s history is a record of a fair machine’s past, and the machine keeps none of it: 4 is drawn with probability 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.